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China attacks White House
This is troubling: Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear...
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Facebook censorship
Facebook has apologized for censoring a anti-Obama Facebook post. It’s good that they apologized, as far as it goes, but that’s not far. Without explaining how it happened, their apology rings hollow....
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Aaron’s Law
A new bill to be introduced into Congress would take contracts out of the sphere of criminal law, and put them back into civil law, where they belong. Lawrence Lessig explains why that’s important.
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Unlocking the rule of law
As of this week, it is now illegal to unlock your smartphone. Okay, that’s bad in and of itself, but what’s worse is how it happened: Did Congress quietly pass a bill prohibiting smartphone unlocking...
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This ain’t your father’s cover-up
Remember when officials use to cover up reports in order to hide dangers? That’s old school. Today, they cover-up reports showing that industries are safe: Thanks to a leak from an anonymous insider,...
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Think of the children!
Why does the left oppose nutrition for children? Finally, after a 12-year delay caused by opponents of genetically modified foods, so-called “golden rice” with vitamin A will be grown in the...
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Clean coal
This will be cool, if it pans out: Researchers have discovered a stunning new process that takes the energy from coal without burning it — and removes virtually all of the pollution. . . Fan discovered...
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Yikes!
I have no problem with killing foreign terrorists using drones, but I’m profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of Homeland Security building a fleet of drones for domestic surveillance. Remember when...
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Molten-salt reactors
Another new technology for nuclear reactors is reaching maturity: the molten-salt reactor. One important aspect of the design is it’s “walk-away safe”. That means it doesn’t require any power to remain...
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The evil empire gets its mojo back
Microsoft wants to charge you admission to your own living room: Microsoft has filed for a Kinect-related patent, and it’s a doozy of an application. The abstract describes a camera-based system that...
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Hyperloop
This seems interesting: The Hyperloop would send multi-person passenger pods through an above-ground tube at 760 miles per hour—nine-tenths the speed of sound. The tube would sit on 20-foot-high pylons...
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DHCP is not a crime
A federal court has ruled that circumventing an IP-address-ban by changing your IP address is criminal. Not even changing your MAC address, mind you, which at least typically is specific to a computer,...
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Private messages aren’t
A new study shows that several major internet companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, are compromising the privacy of their users’ emails: Cyber-security company High-Tech Bridge set out to...
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White elephant
The Obamacare web site, which still doesn’t work, cost a reported $634 million to build. (Another report put the cost at a mere $515 million.) CGI Federal, the Canadian contractor that built the site,...
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Obamacare IT
CNN has been trying to use the Obamacare web site for two weeks now, to no avail. Never mind signing up for health care, their reporter can’t even set up an account: Of particular note, their reporter...
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Obamacare IT
I have been enjoying the catastrophe that is the Obamacare rollout, of course. But beyond pure schadenfreude, it’s really interesting how the catastrophe came to be. The Obamacare web site goes beyond...
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Healthcare.gov is worse than you think
Yuval Levin’s heavily reported piece on the state of the Obamacare exchanges must be read in its entirety. They are, he reports, an utter disaster. Government officials are in “a kind of restrained...
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It’s not the load
Obamacare’s apologists have tried to blame Healthcare.gov’s failure on heavy load. We’ve known nearly since the beginning that this wasn’t true. But some new reporting reveals it isn’t even remotely...
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Obamacare IT
The failure of Healthcare.gov comes as no surprise to its hapless developers: As questions mount over the website’s failure, insider interviews and a review of technical specifications by The...
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